You happen to be in
Vienna....[1]
I hope you will do
everything you can to find the Lefts. Perhaps Strasser (Josef
Strasser) will help find them, although he himself,
probably, is
not...[2]
to help them.

If possible (if you have good connections, etc.) try to
rescue my library from Poronin
(Galizien)[3]
:
I left it there
at the dacha with my things in 1914, I had to pay a
balance of 50 kronen; now I would give 100,000,000 to have
the library rescued. But
that ...[4]
is a personal
matter.[5]

The important thing is to find the Lefts in Vienna and
to help them in every way. I’m afraid you won’t succeed
in this owing to the lack of connections, but try to do
everything possible.

[5]The books preserved from Lenin’s library in Poronin as well as
archive materials (the Cracow-Poronin archives) were handed
over to the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death. The first batch of
materials was received in 1924, and some of the books belonging
to Lenin in 1933. Twelve of Lenin’s books, kept in the Bydgoszcz
library, were handed over to the Soviet Army in 1945 as a token
of gratitude for the liberation of the town from the German
occupationists. A large batch of materials from the Cracow-Poronin
archives, discovered by archivists of the Polish People’s
Republic, was received in 1951. A particularly large number of
valuable documents were handed over-to the Central Committee of the
C.P.S.U. by the Polish United Workers’ Party in 1954.
Altogether, in 1951 and 1954, over a thousand new documents were
handed over to the U.S.S.R. from Poland.